Help us expand our worldwide listings of transit operators

The Transitland Feed Registry lists maps, schedules, stops, and route information for 879 transit feeds containing over 2,275 transit operators. Our current coverage of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and most countries in Europe is excellent, and we have very good coverage of the most populated areas in Australia and New Zealand.

Transitland, however, still has no information about public-transit service in other places around the world. Now we’re creating “placeholder” records for transit operators for which Transitland does not — yet — have complete stop/route/schedule data.

For each of the placeholders, we have created a Transitland operator record. This record includes the following information, when available, about the operator:

name (long and short forms)

location (country, state/province, metro region)

public website URL

Wikipedia URL

Twitter handle

a GeoJSON polygon that roughly covers the operator’s service area

We’re now asking for your help to create additional placeholder operators, as well as to help find GTFS feeds that are available for any placeholder operators. Together, we can help build Transitland as both a deep source of data, where it’s available, and a broad overview of where we know transit service exists but detailed open data is not yet available.

Transitland Feed Registry now lists “placeholder” operators added for South Korea. Browse them in the Feed Registry.

(We are also missing operators from elsewhere in the world, but please check the Feed Registry before submitting a place outside the countries and contintents listed above.)

You can explore the coverage we have in the world using Mobility Explorer. Search or pan to any area on earth and click “Show Operators”. Or use the Transitland Datastore API to query the /api/v1/operators endpoint from your favorite scripting language or command-line tool.